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Mickey Mouse enters the public domain Monday . Accessibility links. ... "Our Supreme Court has made clear that you can't use trademark rights to circumvent what copyright expiration allows," she said.

By 1969, Mickey was selling rice, sugar and baking soda in packages now decorated with the eponymous mouse. In 1978, the business moved to a factory topped by a 62-meter illuminated Christmas tree .

The earliest version of Disney's iconic characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse entered the public domain on Monday, but later iterations of the animated mice remain under copyright protection.